Clarion 1942-12-16 Vol 22 No 04

--- BETHEL CLARION
Around the World
With Swan
America, after a year of the
second world war, finds itself corn-ing
from a defensive position into
an offensive position. We now per-haps
can take an optimistic view
and see the end of the beg' ping
and the beginning of an en4.
War Cost
This one year of total war has
cost the United States more than
$46,000,000,000. Treasury state-ments
show current war expendi-tures
as about $6,000,000 a month.
As yet, we cannot say whether or
not the Allies struck too soon at
Tunisia. The deadlock of the bat-tle
shows that it is far from being
won, but it is still further from
being lost.
R A F
RAF bombers are engaged in a
series of raids against Italy, and
Premier Mussolini admits that they
are causing heavy damage.
New Guinea
In the Buna-Gona area of New
Guinea, Allied bombers broke up a
new attempt by the Japanese navy
to reinforce troops. A communique
from General MacArthur's head-quarters
informs us that Japanese
planes have violated the laws of
war by repeated attacks upon Al-lied
hospital installations, killing
doctors, medical personnel, and pa-tients.
And from the University of Texas
we hear that one of the 78 war
courses there consists of a course
for commandettes (or girl com-mandos).
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The greatest event of the Christ-mas
season will be an all-school
Christmas party to be held this
afternoon, December 16th. Nels
Stjernstrom is in charge of the
program, which features music.
Dean Johnson promises a Swedish
dinner. Chairman of the decorat-ing
committee is Miss Alice John-son.
Thursday afternoon, December
10, the B.W.A. had a Christmas fes-tival.
The program consisted of
the favorite songs of Christmas-tide.
The girls of the Dormitory had
their party Monday evening, with
the women members of the faculty
as guests.
Flapping Ears Hears
Vacation Plans
As Christmas arrives, the stu-dents
leave, most all of them, that
is. I flapped my ears in the Semin-ary
and found out that Val Hauk
expects to stay in the Seminary
dorm while he chases some of the
root of all evil at Wards. Val is
going to have company in the Sem.
in the shapes of Laurence Nydeg-ger,
Dick Sleiter, Gene Nyman, Inge
Larson, Kenny Nordquist and that
social success, Elbert Walker. Most
of these gentlemen hope to spend
the vacation in acquiring lining for
their pockets.
Carol, the Reise, is going to con-tinue
her eating, sleeping and loaf-ing
at home in Minneapolis for the
four weeks. She also expects to
"Grow fat, open presents, and read
and write letters to and from her
men," she says. For purposes of
propaganda she asked me to state
that she intends to study Deutsch.
The overloaded trains are dis-couraging
some of our characters
to the point of staying here in St.
Paul. Evelyn, West of Providence,
Rhode Island, fits into the cate-gory.
Helen Heitzman is working
in town until just before Christmas
and racing home to Emery, South
Dakota, for turkey.
West Point, Nebraska, will en-joy
the presence of Elwood Ander-son
for the holidays.
Double Convocation
Features Nurses, Films
Four films which depicted the
progress of the manpower and pro-duction
program, were shown to
the boys in Convocation. The films
were put out by the W.P.B. (War
Production Board) and were very
interesting. We cannot doubt our
victory in this crucial world wide
struggle when we see the vastness
of the nation's abilities.
At the Convocation, December 8,
a group of instructors and nurses
from the Mounds-Midway School of
Nursing presented a program for
the Bethel girls to show the need
for nurses during the present emer-gency..
They also pointed out the
opportunities that nurses will have
after the war. Various phases of
the training course were discussed
by each of the representatives.
Missionary Band Sets
Objectives for. Year
By Miriam Johanson—
Study Group Leader
We as a Missionary Band, in
order to meet the needs of a chang-ing
and stricken world, have
prayerfully decided upon a two-fold
addition to our program for the
current year.
First of all, to act intelligently,
the facts must be known. For this
reason study groups, centered
around problems in connection with
individual fields, will be conducted
at least once a month for the re-mainder
of the school year, these
meetings to be limited to one hour.
The first one was held in the Girl's
Dormitory on Thanksgiving Eve.
Increased interest and spiritual
blessing result from investment in
the Lord's work. Provision, there-fore,
is made for the participation
of everyone in the Bethel family
in definite missionary giving. The
goal set for this year is $500.00.
This sum, though large, is within
reach. Invest your money—returns
guaranteed. Missionary work is not
at a stand-still; instead, souls who
would not listen before are recep-tive
today. Many missionaries have
returned, but must be provided for;
the large majority are still on the
field; native workers are maintain-ing
the work; and many are ready
to leave these shores as soon as
the war is over. In order to meet
the present situation with an eye
on future opportunities, the Ameri-can
Baptist Foreign Mission So-ciety
needs OUR SACRIFICIAL
SUPPORT. Be prepared to make
your pledge when approached in
the next few days. Let our motto
be, "On to Victory!"
Ten Make Honors
In"Mid-Semesters"
Mid-semester honor roll as re-leased
includes three in the Christ-ian
Workers and seven in college.
College (10 credits or more):
Carol Rexion
James Nyquist
Clarence Lake
Ruth Nelson
Lorraine Carlson
Marian Larson
C. B. Cunningham
Christian Workers' Course (10
credits or more):
Gladys Biller
Mildred Peterson
Helen Force
Myrna Montgomery
Guest Artist
At Today's Party
Vacation begins at 3:30 this af-ternoon
when students and faculty
gather in the college chapel for a
Christmas party.
The first part of the party will
consist of musical numbers.
The Arian chorus will sing "Glo-ria
Patri" by Palestrina, "Send
Forth Thy Spirit by Bach, "O'er
the World in Silent Sleeping" by
Harris and "I love To Hear the
Story", traditional, arranged by
Overby.
Following the program a Swed-ish
dinner will be served in the
chapel.
The musical program is directed
by Nels Stjernstrom, the dinner by
Dean Johnson. The decorations
were prepared by Miss Alice John-son
and her committee.
Thursday's Christmas program
pictured the traditions found in
literature and portrayed the real
meaning of the holiday.
Choral reading of the Scriptures
began the program. Gladyce Treu-mer
and James Nyquist did the
solo reading.
Bernard Travaille read Christ-mas
poetry selected from English
and American authors, both old and
modern..
Stanley Paulson interpreted Hen-
. ry Van Dyke's "The Lost Word."
The program was directed by
Enid Platts, speech instructor.
Students Elect Larson
Editor of Clarion
Dana Larson is the newly-elected
Editor-in-Chief of the BETHEL
CLARION.
A sophomore student, he comes
from Barberton, Ohio ,where he
participated in many high school
activities. When asked if he had
had any experience in editing, he
casually replied, "Oh, I was just
editor of our high school annual."
Dana is a busy person—and he
still has that outside reading to do!
In addition to being editor of the
CLARION, he is a member of the
Student Council and Treasurer of
the Religious Council.
Dana plans to enter the Semin-ary
next year and finish college
later. His two favorite courses at
present are Economics and Ameri-can
Government.
Vol. XXII No. 4 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) December 16, 1942
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Through the rift in the sky made by the Star, a host of
angels swarmed, eager to wing the message of heaven to those
waiting below. Their song that morning was not only "There
is born a Saviour," but also "For unto you." The Son came, not
only as a sacrifice for the world, but also as a Gift to man.
We are all gift conscious. Our thought is not just what, or
how much we shall give, but rather, Is it commensurate with
what we shall receive. If the gifts are disproportionate, someone
will be embarrassed.
Isaiah spoke for man, "For unto us is given;" the angels
sang for the Father, "For unto you is given;" Luke wrote for
the Son, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Heaven gave the first Gift, its greatest Treasure, and set the
precedent. Even if we could return as great a gift, we would
not find favor with the Father. But His primary concern is not
what we give, but what we accept—"I will take the cup of
salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord."
—Grant Samuelson
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THE BETHEL CLARION
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Helen Carlson: Yes, but I hate to
admit it.
Jim Schlaf: With all other tradi-tions
failing, I hold fast to this
one.
Bob Bergerud: Yes, who do you
think would bring my Christmas
presents.
Dale Lindberg: Yes, it's just as
plain to understand as algebra.
Elwood Anderson: No. I found part
of Daddy's outfit in the attic.
Tommy Hoover: Yes, have'nt you
seen him?
Laden Erickson: Yes, He comes to
my house every year.
Bernice Shold: Yes, there's a spirit
of exhuberance in the air.
Carol Reise: Yes, we get more
presents then.
Averil Blyeen: No, my mamma
done told me.
Eunice Anderson: For the spirit of
Christmas.
Helen Soder: It's a pretty nice
thing to believe in.
Lloyd Sprecker: No, I have to be
Santa Claus at home.
Pearl Christopherson: It's where
half of life comes in.
James Nyquist: He adds spice to
life.
Wallace Henk: In composition we
learn about clauses, so it's na-ture
to believe in Santa Claus.
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Chapel Nuggets
Rev. Babcock—There are three
things we need to learn for a suc-cessful
life: (1) know God better;
(2) know our Bible; (3) know our
friends.
Ed Nelson—Our lives are bound
by two great truths. The Master
sends us forth and stands at the
end of the journey. God's hand is
in the affairs of man.
Ray Johnson—We must remem-ber
"I must decrease" in the esti-mation
of self and in self-seeking.
Clarence Nelson — Christianity
was born in defeat, but as is shown
by the glorious return to life by
Christ, there is always a resurrec-tion
of the things that are best.
America needs a genuine, deep
trust in God more than she needs
guns and bullets. We must not
pray with hearts stained with
hatred for an easy victory, but we
should pray that we may be
worthy of that victory.
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BOYS THIS CHRISTMAS!
BERNARD HAMMERBECK (A.S.)
Naval Training Station,
San Diego, Calif.
ROBERT HOVINEN
Platoon 818 M.C.B.R.D.
San Diego, Calif.
GILMORE LAWRENCE A.S. V-6
Regt. 8. Batt. 1, Co. 1561
U.S.N.T.S.
Great Lakes, Illinois.
PVT. DAVID 0. MOBERG
Medical Detachment
Station Hospital,
Camp Phillips, Kansas.
PVT. GORDON NELSON
Barracks 313, 401st Tech. Sch.
Sq. Sp.,
Sheppard Field, Texas.
CPL. RODGER NORDELL, U. S.
ARMY
Btry. D. 52D AA Tng. Bn.,
Camp Callan, San Diego, Calif.
"I can't concentrate' is the ex-planation
given most frequently by
students whose classroom achieve-ment
has failed to measure up to
their aspirations. This "inability
to concentrate" is often the subject
of much concern and considerable
worry.
It may be heartening to some to
learn that concentration is not a
power of faculty which some pos-sess
and others lack. At least dur-ing
such time as a person is awake,
the mind is constantly attending
to something. The trouble arises
not with lack of attention but with
our failure to direct it. A multi-tude
of stimuli are constantly bid-ding
for our attention: concentra-tion
is the process of directing and
controlling one's attention.
The factors which impair such
control may be classed under two
PVT. WILMER NORDINE
771 T.S.S.
Barracks 335,
Buckely Field, Colorado.
A/C VERNIE E. STONEBERG
Class 43 B.A.F.B.F.S.,
Minter Field, Bakersfield, Cal.
LT. LLOYD THOMPSON
Communication Department
Tank Destroyer School,
Camp Hood, Texas.
ROBERT WINGBLADE
Squadron 16, Army Air Base,
Santa Ana, Calif.
CPL. DONALD L. BERGERUD
Service Battery
F.A.R.T.C. Barracks,
Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
SGT. VICTOR OSTERMAN
17026064
19th Bomb. Sq. 22nd GP. (M)
A.P.O. 922 c/o Postmaster
San Francisco, Calif.
PVT. GERALD LARSON
26th Bomb. Squadron H
A.P.O. No. 932 c/o Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calif.
It is sure hard to get any sym-pathy
around Bethel these days.
Seekers are usually met with,
"You're making me cry!", in Dan-ielson
style.
headings: those which arise out of
the conditioning and the habits of
the person, and those which arise
out of the conditions of the per-son's
environment. Effective di-recting
of the attention is very
largely a matter of habit. Each
lapse from direction makes future
direction more difficult, and con-versely
each successful attempt at
direction makes future attempts
more easily successful. Fears, wor-ries,
and dissatisfaction can build
up an unsettled frame of mind
which makes direction of attention
very difficult.
Concentration consists of clear-ing
the mind, clearing the sur-roundings
of distractions, and roll-ing
up one's sleeves before going
after the materials.
—Professor C. E. Carlson
Van Dyke Presents
Chtistmas Thoughts
For Today
Romans XIV, 6: He that regardeth
the day, regardeth it unto the Lord.
It is a good thing to observe
Christmas day. The mere marking
of times and seasons, when men
agree to stop work and make merry
together, is a wise and wholesome
custom. It helps one to feel the
supremacy of the common life over
the individual life. It reminds a
man to set his own little watch,
now and then, by the great clock
of humanity which runs on sun
time.
But there is a better thing than
the observance of Christmas day,
and that is keeping Christmas. ...
Are you willing to forget what
you have done for other people, and
to remember what other people
have done for you; to ignore what
the world owes you, and to think
what you owe the world; to put
your rights in the background, and
your duties in the middle distance,
and your chances to do a little
more than your duty in the fore-ground;
to see that your fellow-men
are just as real as you are,
and try to look behind their faces
to their hearts, hungry for joy; to
own that probably the only good
reason for your exstence is not
what you are going to get out of
life, but what you are going to give
life; to close your book of com-plaints
against the management of
the universe, and look around you
for a place where you can sow a
few seeds of happiness—are you
willing to do these things even for
a day? Then you can keep Christ-mas.
Are you willing to stoop down
and consider the needs and the
desires of little children; to re-member
the weakness and lonli-ness
of people who are growing
old; to stop asking how much your
friends love you, and ask yourself
whether you love them enough; to
bear in mind the things that other
people have to bear on their hearts;
to try to understand what those
who live in the same house with
you really want, without waiting
for them to tell you; to trim your
lamp so that it will give more light
and less smoke, and to carry it in
front so that your shadow will fall
behind you; to make a grave for
your ugly thoughts, and a garden
for your kindly feelings, with the
gate open—are you willing to do
these things even for a day? Then
you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing to believe that
love is the strongest thing in the
world—stronger than hate, stronger
tran evil, stronger than death—and
that the blessed life which began
in Bethlehem nineteen hundred
years ago is the image and bright-ness
of the Eternal Love? Then
you can keep Christmas.
And if you keep it for a day, why
not always?
But you can never keep it alone.
—Henry Van Dyke
Is Bethel a Concentration Camp?
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
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dear boss
the king is dead long live the
king
ever since don marquis died ive
been looking for someone else to
help boy do you need it
pardon my punctuation or rather
the lack of it you see i being a
cockroach cant manipulate the shift
key and i hope you wont ask me
to be funny because oh what
heart rending pathos to be forever
doomed to be comic
you see you being a student dont
see very much and miss a good
many things now im sensitive to
colors so when fraulin riese fraulin
cook and fraulin rye walked into
german class clad in bright yellow
i was quite shocked but when
fraulin applequist came in flaunt-ing
a yellow collar i crawled into
that diagonal crack in fraulin nel-sons
desk and missed some of herr
schlafs best quips
4:00—Ralph Johnson gets up to
run over his sermon on
Zacchaeus.
6:30—Marilyn Peterson gets up—
that ! * ? gong blares
through the dorm.
7:00—Some girls struggle down
to breakfast—most of them
don't.
7:10—Yells! ! !—Eleanor V. Pet-erson
gets her hair combed.
7:16—"Hey! what happened to my
scarf — Roomutt?" Can I
borrow yours?" — Verda
Lindberg.
8:00—"Ooh—why did I ever sign
up for this class?" groans
Wayne Anderson and goes
to sleep.
9:00—Maurice Lundh goes to hist-ory
— Eow! a test! ! Oh
well, just a matter of hours
until Christmas.
9:02—Johnny Danielson opens his
mouth in freshman lectures
and puts his foot in.
10:00—Chapel, a bright spot in
every day.
10:30—The coffee shop — Ethel —
Helen and Miriam listen to
shouts of "Hey a cuppa
from my vantage point on a copy
of panegyrici veteres in the library
the other day i saw a strange sight
of the eighteen chairs only thirteen
were empty and every one of those
five students was studying the
strangest sight of all was you em-itting
rusty squeaks as you tried
to think so then and there i de-cided
to help you now if you will
just refrain from eating so much
,at the boarding club and leave a
few scraps for me who knows may-hap
we can enter into partnership
i have a good many philosophical
mullings i have mulled over in my
idleness but this time i just wanted
to introduce myself and see if you
could take it
oh well cheer up there are only
six hours twenty eight minutes and
forty seven seconds until christmas
vacation
archy the cockroach
coffee—and did you hear—"
"Oh, boy, I'm going home!"
11:10—Connie Warner eats a her-shey
bar in Bible Outline—
and Mr. Norstrom calls on
her.
12:15—The best part of the day! !
More pounds.
12:40—Gospel Teams meet.
1:00—You can hear the speech
class up and down the hall.
1:02—Lloyd Sprecker and Gloria
Mitchell start to giggle.
1:30—Lloyd Sprecker and Gloria
Mitchell continue to giggle.
2 : 00—General Chemistry.
3 : 00—General Chemistry
4 : 00—General Chemistry.
5:30—No okay—Do it again and
again.
6:00—We eat—especially some of
us.
6:30—To prayer meeting at the
Seminary, 100% sometimes.
7:00—You guess! ! ! ! !
8:00—
9:00—
10 : 00—
11 : 00—
11:00—
12:00—And so on! ! ! !
Chemical Analysis
ELEMENT —Woman. SYMBOL
— W. 0. ACCEPTED ATOMIC
WEIGHT .. . 120 pounds.
OCCURENCE — Found wherever
man exists, seldom in the free
state. With few exceptions the
combined state is preferred.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES — All
colors, sizes, and forms. Boils at
nothing, and may freeze at any
minute. Very bitter if not well used.
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES —
Very active, possesses great af-finity
for gold, platinum, and prec-ious
stones. Violent reaction when
left alone. Ability to absorb great
amounts of expensive food at any
time. Turns green when placed be-side
a better looking specimen.
Ages rapidly.
USES—Highly ornamental. Wide
experience in the arts of domestic
science. Useful as a tonic for low
spirits. Equalizes the distribution
of wealth and is probably the most
powerful income reducing agent
known.
CAUTION — Highly explosive
when in inexperienced hands.
The Waldorf Lobbyist,
Forest City, Iowa.
Did you hear the noise in Greek
Class last week? Pipkin was set
atop the table chair and all. (The
preachers confessed — "just for
fun")
It has been suggested that the-school
furnish Kleenex—to elimin-ate
the sniffling and snuffling of
those who don't have handker-chiefs.
Moronic—Jackie Malmsten rubs
her finger over her face
looks at the finger, and says, "I'm
not blushing."
Bernice Hallstrand wants to
know how to keep pearls from
breaking at the most inopportune
times.
N EWSETT ES
The girls' dormitory looks like
a hospital. Mid-winter colds —
cough . . . choke . . . sneeze . . .
"What dud ya do wid dat Vix?"
* *
Bernice Shold returned last week
after having her appendix removed.
* * *
Carol Rexion and Gwen Parson
are ready for Christmas. Note the
elaborate room decorations.
The library boasts a new-up-to
date atlas put out by the Encyclo-pedia
Britannica.
* * *
Gertrude Carrol is back in school
after being in the hospital.
* * *
Mel and Sid Wyma have dropped
for the present preparatory to join
the Navy.
* * *
Gilmore Lawrence, former Beth-elite,
visited school. He is now at
the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station.
Norman Hoover has enlisted in
the Navy. He will leave soon.
Did anyone see the new formula
in the lab?—DIRT plus H2O equals
MUD.
One could mistake Bethel for
Alaska—All the "mush-mush" that
goes on! ! ! !
"Have you heard it?" yells Wil-bur
Erickson
"What?" bites Dick Klein?
"The wind, it's all over town! !"
Do you know Terrible-Tempered
Mr. Alquist? ? ? ?
Amos—What'd yo all do when
you found out a ghose wasn't chas-infg
yo last night?
Andy—Why, when I found out a
ghose wasn't chasing me, I slowed
down to a gallup!
School Diary
PICK-UPS
tA Eyes View .. .
"Sure I Was at the Game But What Happened"
Down in front! I would like to
see the game, that is if I can get
my eyes off those broad shoulders
that (censored) has. Oh, I beg
your pardon, so that's cheering. Is
that what they call it at Concordia?
Yes, I am awfully thirsty. Would
you mind terribly if I took a swal-low?
I'm sorry, I did mean to leave
half the bottle for you. What's
that you say? We made a basket.
Who's we? I never made a basket
in my life. Only Indians do that.
Oh, Bethel threw the ball in the
basket. Isn't that silly? Now what
made them do that? How can they
play when the ball is in the basket?
Don't try to explain; you make it
worse.
Look at that guy from Concordia
will you? Why don't they grow
good-lookers like that at Bethel or
am I just not very observant? That
center certainly is tall though. I'll
have to get my glasses; I can't see
that far without them. Why don't
they let the visitors have the ball
once in a while? After all, it
isn't fair to hog it all the time.
Shine would make a good Super-man,
wouldn't he? He gets around
so fast. He is fast, isn't he? Look
at Gussie try to hit that fish net
hanging up there. I hope he makes
it so he'll quit fooling around pretty
soon.
Did you see that? That grabby
fellow took the ball right away
from G. Johnson. I think he should
read Emily Post.
How did that car get into the
school building? That's the fourth
By Ginger
time I've heard its horn. Why don't
they get out of its way? Where's
everyone going? Is that car coming
in here?
Oh, the game's over. Isn't that
strange I didn't see very much
playing. What? I was too watch-ing.
At least I was most of the
time. By the way who won? They
did? That's nice. I don't like bas-ketball
very well anyway. Let's go
to Blomberg's for a coke and forget
about it. So long everybody.
"On the Bench"
by Bo
Now that all football fever has
left the fellows here at Bethel and
all over the nation, except for the
bowl games on New Year's Day,
and we have all put our togs back
into mothballs, the sport's program
shifts from the gridiron to the bas-ketball
floor.
The Indians ; with two wins to
their credit, one over the Alumni
and the other over the hard-fight-ing
Concordia team, have already
gained some confidence which will
help them in the coming conference
schedule. The Indians have also
had the opportunity of having sev-eral
interesting scrimmages. On
November 30th, the team again
played the Alumni and were beaten
by a score of 40-38. Much credit
for the Alumni victory must go to
Gene Nyman who played brilliantly
at center and also to Del Peterson
who had just returned from the
Army Air Corps. Another defeat
was suffered at the hands of Con-cordia
in a later contest by the
score of 54-36, but the less said
about it—the better. But even
though the team has been beaten,
the games have been of much value
in helping to shape the team for
the approaching schedule.
With such fellows as "Drip" Otto,
the 5:30 sharpshooter, Bob "Kill-
'em" Bergerud, Gene "One-Eyed"
Johnson, Gus "Never-miss" Gustaf-son,
Gordon "Lanky" Johnson, Tom
"Dreamer" Thompson, Rune
"Baldie" Mentzer, Willie "Wild"
Wessman, Bob "Bomber" Hailes,
John "Hunky" Danielson, Inge
"Brown-Eyed" Larson, Bob "Mapie"
Norstrom, and many others prom-ising
freshman and sophomore,
sure-fire basket shooters, there is
no reason why the team should not
have a successful season. Another
bright spot for the Indians is Don
Johnson's coaching. Don is doing
a good job in replacing Bill Adams,
our coach of last year.
BETHEL BOOKSTORE &
COFFEE SHOP
—Where Students and
Faculty Meet Around
the Coffee Cup.
Have Your Shoe Repairing
Done at
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1560 W. Como at Snelling
Coal, Pkg. Fuel and Fuel Oil
The Anderson Press
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Gifts—Candy—Cosmetics
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Concordians
Take Bethel
Concordia payed back with divi-dends
the loss they suffered in the
first contest between Bethel and
Concordia. On December 5, the
Comets overpowered the Bethel
squad by a score of 54-36. Even
though the high scoring honors
went to Shine Swanson, with 14
points, the high scoring on the
Comet team overshadowed him.
Hanneman and Grumm led the op-ponent
attack with 12 points each
while Hinricks and Meichsner fol-lowed
close with 10 points each.
Fouls were plenteous on both
sides, each team losing 2 men on
that account. The distinct advan-tage
lies with the team playing on
its own floor and this was decis-ively
shown in this contest. We had
a small but noisy cheering section.
With a score of 35-25, the Bethel
"B" spuad played the Concordia
second team preliminary to the
varsity game and were adminis-tered
a defeat, not as severe as the
varsity's, but the second defeat to
a Concordia team.
Scoring honors went to Himrich
of Concordia with 9 points. Mesen-brick
of Concordia and Mentzer of
Bethel each had 8 tallies with Fran-cis
Otto credited with 7. This
game, as the varsity game, was
well-stocked with fouls, three
Bethel players and two Concordia
men leaving the game on this ac-count.
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Bethel Indians
Scalp Augsburg
Saturday, December 12, the Beth-el
Indians played the Augsburg
'Freshmen Cagers at the Minnea-polis
Armory and won a rather
slim victory by the score of 22-18.
The gym was new and made it
somewhat difficult for our boys to
get the range of the basket but,
apparently, the "Auggies" had
their difficulties too. Rune Ment-zer
was high-point man for both
teams with seven tallies. Thomp-son
of Bethel, and Markgraf of
Augsburg, followed with 5 each.
This game proved a good build-up
for the thriller that followed
between the Augsburg Varsity and
St. Cloud Teachers. The game tied
and went into two overtimes with
St. Cloud winning by a one point
margin 62-61.
Augsburg f.g. f.t. T.
Sverdrup 0 1 1
Blikstad 0 1 1
Carlson 2 0 4
Markgraf 2 1 5
Lockert 0 3 3
Johnson 0 0 0
Bartsch 0' 0 0
Emerson 0 2 2
Mekiver 1 0 2
Dahl 0 0 0
18
Bethel f.g. f.t. T
Swanson 2 0 4
Bergerud 0 1 1
Thompson 2 1 5
G. Johnson 0 0 0
Gustafson 0 0 0
Hails 1 1 3
Mentzer 3 1 7
Danielson 0 0 0
Bishop 0 0 0
Wessman 1 0 2
22
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BETHEL
Swanson, f. 14
Wessman, f. 2
Bergerud, f. 4
Mentzer, f. 3
Johnson, G., c. 1
Thompson, c. 3
Johnson, G., g. 1
Hailes, g. 3
Gustafson, g. 5
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C ONC ORDIA
Grumm, f. 12
Hinrichs, f. 10
Hanneman, f. 12
Meichsner, c. 10
Braem, c. 0
Nahnsen, g. 0
Margardt, g. 5
Friedrichs, g. 5
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The games were played for
the benefit of the Community
Chest and we wish to thank
the officials for donating
their services.
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--- BETHEL CLARION
Around the World
With Swan
America, after a year of the
second world war, finds itself corn-ing
from a defensive position into
an offensive position. We now per-haps
can take an optimistic view
and see the end of the beg' ping
and the beginning of an en4.
War Cost
This one year of total war has
cost the United States more than
$46,000,000,000. Treasury state-ments
show current war expendi-tures
as about $6,000,000 a month.
As yet, we cannot say whether or
not the Allies struck too soon at
Tunisia. The deadlock of the bat-tle
shows that it is far from being
won, but it is still further from
being lost.
R A F
RAF bombers are engaged in a
series of raids against Italy, and
Premier Mussolini admits that they
are causing heavy damage.
New Guinea
In the Buna-Gona area of New
Guinea, Allied bombers broke up a
new attempt by the Japanese navy
to reinforce troops. A communique
from General MacArthur's head-quarters
informs us that Japanese
planes have violated the laws of
war by repeated attacks upon Al-lied
hospital installations, killing
doctors, medical personnel, and pa-tients.
And from the University of Texas
we hear that one of the 78 war
courses there consists of a course
for commandettes (or girl com-mandos).
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Xobap
The greatest event of the Christ-mas
season will be an all-school
Christmas party to be held this
afternoon, December 16th. Nels
Stjernstrom is in charge of the
program, which features music.
Dean Johnson promises a Swedish
dinner. Chairman of the decorat-ing
committee is Miss Alice John-son.
Thursday afternoon, December
10, the B.W.A. had a Christmas fes-tival.
The program consisted of
the favorite songs of Christmas-tide.
The girls of the Dormitory had
their party Monday evening, with
the women members of the faculty
as guests.
Flapping Ears Hears
Vacation Plans
As Christmas arrives, the stu-dents
leave, most all of them, that
is. I flapped my ears in the Semin-ary
and found out that Val Hauk
expects to stay in the Seminary
dorm while he chases some of the
root of all evil at Wards. Val is
going to have company in the Sem.
in the shapes of Laurence Nydeg-ger,
Dick Sleiter, Gene Nyman, Inge
Larson, Kenny Nordquist and that
social success, Elbert Walker. Most
of these gentlemen hope to spend
the vacation in acquiring lining for
their pockets.
Carol, the Reise, is going to con-tinue
her eating, sleeping and loaf-ing
at home in Minneapolis for the
four weeks. She also expects to
"Grow fat, open presents, and read
and write letters to and from her
men," she says. For purposes of
propaganda she asked me to state
that she intends to study Deutsch.
The overloaded trains are dis-couraging
some of our characters
to the point of staying here in St.
Paul. Evelyn, West of Providence,
Rhode Island, fits into the cate-gory.
Helen Heitzman is working
in town until just before Christmas
and racing home to Emery, South
Dakota, for turkey.
West Point, Nebraska, will en-joy
the presence of Elwood Ander-son
for the holidays.
Double Convocation
Features Nurses, Films
Four films which depicted the
progress of the manpower and pro-duction
program, were shown to
the boys in Convocation. The films
were put out by the W.P.B. (War
Production Board) and were very
interesting. We cannot doubt our
victory in this crucial world wide
struggle when we see the vastness
of the nation's abilities.
At the Convocation, December 8,
a group of instructors and nurses
from the Mounds-Midway School of
Nursing presented a program for
the Bethel girls to show the need
for nurses during the present emer-gency..
They also pointed out the
opportunities that nurses will have
after the war. Various phases of
the training course were discussed
by each of the representatives.
Missionary Band Sets
Objectives for. Year
By Miriam Johanson—
Study Group Leader
We as a Missionary Band, in
order to meet the needs of a chang-ing
and stricken world, have
prayerfully decided upon a two-fold
addition to our program for the
current year.
First of all, to act intelligently,
the facts must be known. For this
reason study groups, centered
around problems in connection with
individual fields, will be conducted
at least once a month for the re-mainder
of the school year, these
meetings to be limited to one hour.
The first one was held in the Girl's
Dormitory on Thanksgiving Eve.
Increased interest and spiritual
blessing result from investment in
the Lord's work. Provision, there-fore,
is made for the participation
of everyone in the Bethel family
in definite missionary giving. The
goal set for this year is $500.00.
This sum, though large, is within
reach. Invest your money—returns
guaranteed. Missionary work is not
at a stand-still; instead, souls who
would not listen before are recep-tive
today. Many missionaries have
returned, but must be provided for;
the large majority are still on the
field; native workers are maintain-ing
the work; and many are ready
to leave these shores as soon as
the war is over. In order to meet
the present situation with an eye
on future opportunities, the Ameri-can
Baptist Foreign Mission So-ciety
needs OUR SACRIFICIAL
SUPPORT. Be prepared to make
your pledge when approached in
the next few days. Let our motto
be, "On to Victory!"
Ten Make Honors
In"Mid-Semesters"
Mid-semester honor roll as re-leased
includes three in the Christ-ian
Workers and seven in college.
College (10 credits or more):
Carol Rexion
James Nyquist
Clarence Lake
Ruth Nelson
Lorraine Carlson
Marian Larson
C. B. Cunningham
Christian Workers' Course (10
credits or more):
Gladys Biller
Mildred Peterson
Helen Force
Myrna Montgomery
Guest Artist
At Today's Party
Vacation begins at 3:30 this af-ternoon
when students and faculty
gather in the college chapel for a
Christmas party.
The first part of the party will
consist of musical numbers.
The Arian chorus will sing "Glo-ria
Patri" by Palestrina, "Send
Forth Thy Spirit by Bach, "O'er
the World in Silent Sleeping" by
Harris and "I love To Hear the
Story", traditional, arranged by
Overby.
Following the program a Swed-ish
dinner will be served in the
chapel.
The musical program is directed
by Nels Stjernstrom, the dinner by
Dean Johnson. The decorations
were prepared by Miss Alice John-son
and her committee.
Thursday's Christmas program
pictured the traditions found in
literature and portrayed the real
meaning of the holiday.
Choral reading of the Scriptures
began the program. Gladyce Treu-mer
and James Nyquist did the
solo reading.
Bernard Travaille read Christ-mas
poetry selected from English
and American authors, both old and
modern..
Stanley Paulson interpreted Hen-
. ry Van Dyke's "The Lost Word."
The program was directed by
Enid Platts, speech instructor.
Students Elect Larson
Editor of Clarion
Dana Larson is the newly-elected
Editor-in-Chief of the BETHEL
CLARION.
A sophomore student, he comes
from Barberton, Ohio ,where he
participated in many high school
activities. When asked if he had
had any experience in editing, he
casually replied, "Oh, I was just
editor of our high school annual."
Dana is a busy person—and he
still has that outside reading to do!
In addition to being editor of the
CLARION, he is a member of the
Student Council and Treasurer of
the Religious Council.
Dana plans to enter the Semin-ary
next year and finish college
later. His two favorite courses at
present are Economics and Ameri-can
Government.
Vol. XXII No. 4 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) December 16, 1942
Christmas Vacation Begins with Party
Program Lends True Holiday Spirit
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Through the rift in the sky made by the Star, a host of
angels swarmed, eager to wing the message of heaven to those
waiting below. Their song that morning was not only "There
is born a Saviour," but also "For unto you." The Son came, not
only as a sacrifice for the world, but also as a Gift to man.
We are all gift conscious. Our thought is not just what, or
how much we shall give, but rather, Is it commensurate with
what we shall receive. If the gifts are disproportionate, someone
will be embarrassed.
Isaiah spoke for man, "For unto us is given;" the angels
sang for the Father, "For unto you is given;" Luke wrote for
the Son, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Heaven gave the first Gift, its greatest Treasure, and set the
precedent. Even if we could return as great a gift, we would
not find favor with the Father. But His primary concern is not
what we give, but what we accept—"I will take the cup of
salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord."
—Grant Samuelson
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THE BETHEL CLARION
oua INQUIQING
PC1302TEQ,
Helen Carlson: Yes, but I hate to
admit it.
Jim Schlaf: With all other tradi-tions
failing, I hold fast to this
one.
Bob Bergerud: Yes, who do you
think would bring my Christmas
presents.
Dale Lindberg: Yes, it's just as
plain to understand as algebra.
Elwood Anderson: No. I found part
of Daddy's outfit in the attic.
Tommy Hoover: Yes, have'nt you
seen him?
Laden Erickson: Yes, He comes to
my house every year.
Bernice Shold: Yes, there's a spirit
of exhuberance in the air.
Carol Reise: Yes, we get more
presents then.
Averil Blyeen: No, my mamma
done told me.
Eunice Anderson: For the spirit of
Christmas.
Helen Soder: It's a pretty nice
thing to believe in.
Lloyd Sprecker: No, I have to be
Santa Claus at home.
Pearl Christopherson: It's where
half of life comes in.
James Nyquist: He adds spice to
life.
Wallace Henk: In composition we
learn about clauses, so it's na-ture
to believe in Santa Claus.
•
Chapel Nuggets
Rev. Babcock—There are three
things we need to learn for a suc-cessful
life: (1) know God better;
(2) know our Bible; (3) know our
friends.
Ed Nelson—Our lives are bound
by two great truths. The Master
sends us forth and stands at the
end of the journey. God's hand is
in the affairs of man.
Ray Johnson—We must remem-ber
"I must decrease" in the esti-mation
of self and in self-seeking.
Clarence Nelson — Christianity
was born in defeat, but as is shown
by the glorious return to life by
Christ, there is always a resurrec-tion
of the things that are best.
America needs a genuine, deep
trust in God more than she needs
guns and bullets. We must not
pray with hearts stained with
hatred for an easy victory, but we
should pray that we may be
worthy of that victory.
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LET'S WRITE TO OUR BETHEL
BOYS THIS CHRISTMAS!
BERNARD HAMMERBECK (A.S.)
Naval Training Station,
San Diego, Calif.
ROBERT HOVINEN
Platoon 818 M.C.B.R.D.
San Diego, Calif.
GILMORE LAWRENCE A.S. V-6
Regt. 8. Batt. 1, Co. 1561
U.S.N.T.S.
Great Lakes, Illinois.
PVT. DAVID 0. MOBERG
Medical Detachment
Station Hospital,
Camp Phillips, Kansas.
PVT. GORDON NELSON
Barracks 313, 401st Tech. Sch.
Sq. Sp.,
Sheppard Field, Texas.
CPL. RODGER NORDELL, U. S.
ARMY
Btry. D. 52D AA Tng. Bn.,
Camp Callan, San Diego, Calif.
"I can't concentrate' is the ex-planation
given most frequently by
students whose classroom achieve-ment
has failed to measure up to
their aspirations. This "inability
to concentrate" is often the subject
of much concern and considerable
worry.
It may be heartening to some to
learn that concentration is not a
power of faculty which some pos-sess
and others lack. At least dur-ing
such time as a person is awake,
the mind is constantly attending
to something. The trouble arises
not with lack of attention but with
our failure to direct it. A multi-tude
of stimuli are constantly bid-ding
for our attention: concentra-tion
is the process of directing and
controlling one's attention.
The factors which impair such
control may be classed under two
PVT. WILMER NORDINE
771 T.S.S.
Barracks 335,
Buckely Field, Colorado.
A/C VERNIE E. STONEBERG
Class 43 B.A.F.B.F.S.,
Minter Field, Bakersfield, Cal.
LT. LLOYD THOMPSON
Communication Department
Tank Destroyer School,
Camp Hood, Texas.
ROBERT WINGBLADE
Squadron 16, Army Air Base,
Santa Ana, Calif.
CPL. DONALD L. BERGERUD
Service Battery
F.A.R.T.C. Barracks,
Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
SGT. VICTOR OSTERMAN
17026064
19th Bomb. Sq. 22nd GP. (M)
A.P.O. 922 c/o Postmaster
San Francisco, Calif.
PVT. GERALD LARSON
26th Bomb. Squadron H
A.P.O. No. 932 c/o Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calif.
It is sure hard to get any sym-pathy
around Bethel these days.
Seekers are usually met with,
"You're making me cry!", in Dan-ielson
style.
headings: those which arise out of
the conditioning and the habits of
the person, and those which arise
out of the conditions of the per-son's
environment. Effective di-recting
of the attention is very
largely a matter of habit. Each
lapse from direction makes future
direction more difficult, and con-versely
each successful attempt at
direction makes future attempts
more easily successful. Fears, wor-ries,
and dissatisfaction can build
up an unsettled frame of mind
which makes direction of attention
very difficult.
Concentration consists of clear-ing
the mind, clearing the sur-roundings
of distractions, and roll-ing
up one's sleeves before going
after the materials.
—Professor C. E. Carlson
Van Dyke Presents
Chtistmas Thoughts
For Today
Romans XIV, 6: He that regardeth
the day, regardeth it unto the Lord.
It is a good thing to observe
Christmas day. The mere marking
of times and seasons, when men
agree to stop work and make merry
together, is a wise and wholesome
custom. It helps one to feel the
supremacy of the common life over
the individual life. It reminds a
man to set his own little watch,
now and then, by the great clock
of humanity which runs on sun
time.
But there is a better thing than
the observance of Christmas day,
and that is keeping Christmas. ...
Are you willing to forget what
you have done for other people, and
to remember what other people
have done for you; to ignore what
the world owes you, and to think
what you owe the world; to put
your rights in the background, and
your duties in the middle distance,
and your chances to do a little
more than your duty in the fore-ground;
to see that your fellow-men
are just as real as you are,
and try to look behind their faces
to their hearts, hungry for joy; to
own that probably the only good
reason for your exstence is not
what you are going to get out of
life, but what you are going to give
life; to close your book of com-plaints
against the management of
the universe, and look around you
for a place where you can sow a
few seeds of happiness—are you
willing to do these things even for
a day? Then you can keep Christ-mas.
Are you willing to stoop down
and consider the needs and the
desires of little children; to re-member
the weakness and lonli-ness
of people who are growing
old; to stop asking how much your
friends love you, and ask yourself
whether you love them enough; to
bear in mind the things that other
people have to bear on their hearts;
to try to understand what those
who live in the same house with
you really want, without waiting
for them to tell you; to trim your
lamp so that it will give more light
and less smoke, and to carry it in
front so that your shadow will fall
behind you; to make a grave for
your ugly thoughts, and a garden
for your kindly feelings, with the
gate open—are you willing to do
these things even for a day? Then
you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing to believe that
love is the strongest thing in the
world—stronger than hate, stronger
tran evil, stronger than death—and
that the blessed life which began
in Bethlehem nineteen hundred
years ago is the image and bright-ness
of the Eternal Love? Then
you can keep Christmas.
And if you keep it for a day, why
not always?
But you can never keep it alone.
—Henry Van Dyke
Is Bethel a Concentration Camp?
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
al.tfrtce /41 Me 7v.p. e ed te I
dear boss
the king is dead long live the
king
ever since don marquis died ive
been looking for someone else to
help boy do you need it
pardon my punctuation or rather
the lack of it you see i being a
cockroach cant manipulate the shift
key and i hope you wont ask me
to be funny because oh what
heart rending pathos to be forever
doomed to be comic
you see you being a student dont
see very much and miss a good
many things now im sensitive to
colors so when fraulin riese fraulin
cook and fraulin rye walked into
german class clad in bright yellow
i was quite shocked but when
fraulin applequist came in flaunt-ing
a yellow collar i crawled into
that diagonal crack in fraulin nel-sons
desk and missed some of herr
schlafs best quips
4:00—Ralph Johnson gets up to
run over his sermon on
Zacchaeus.
6:30—Marilyn Peterson gets up—
that ! * ? gong blares
through the dorm.
7:00—Some girls struggle down
to breakfast—most of them
don't.
7:10—Yells! ! !—Eleanor V. Pet-erson
gets her hair combed.
7:16—"Hey! what happened to my
scarf — Roomutt?" Can I
borrow yours?" — Verda
Lindberg.
8:00—"Ooh—why did I ever sign
up for this class?" groans
Wayne Anderson and goes
to sleep.
9:00—Maurice Lundh goes to hist-ory
— Eow! a test! ! Oh
well, just a matter of hours
until Christmas.
9:02—Johnny Danielson opens his
mouth in freshman lectures
and puts his foot in.
10:00—Chapel, a bright spot in
every day.
10:30—The coffee shop — Ethel —
Helen and Miriam listen to
shouts of "Hey a cuppa
from my vantage point on a copy
of panegyrici veteres in the library
the other day i saw a strange sight
of the eighteen chairs only thirteen
were empty and every one of those
five students was studying the
strangest sight of all was you em-itting
rusty squeaks as you tried
to think so then and there i de-cided
to help you now if you will
just refrain from eating so much
,at the boarding club and leave a
few scraps for me who knows may-hap
we can enter into partnership
i have a good many philosophical
mullings i have mulled over in my
idleness but this time i just wanted
to introduce myself and see if you
could take it
oh well cheer up there are only
six hours twenty eight minutes and
forty seven seconds until christmas
vacation
archy the cockroach
coffee—and did you hear—"
"Oh, boy, I'm going home!"
11:10—Connie Warner eats a her-shey
bar in Bible Outline—
and Mr. Norstrom calls on
her.
12:15—The best part of the day! !
More pounds.
12:40—Gospel Teams meet.
1:00—You can hear the speech
class up and down the hall.
1:02—Lloyd Sprecker and Gloria
Mitchell start to giggle.
1:30—Lloyd Sprecker and Gloria
Mitchell continue to giggle.
2 : 00—General Chemistry.
3 : 00—General Chemistry
4 : 00—General Chemistry.
5:30—No okay—Do it again and
again.
6:00—We eat—especially some of
us.
6:30—To prayer meeting at the
Seminary, 100% sometimes.
7:00—You guess! ! ! ! !
8:00—
9:00—
10 : 00—
11 : 00—
11:00—
12:00—And so on! ! ! !
Chemical Analysis
ELEMENT —Woman. SYMBOL
— W. 0. ACCEPTED ATOMIC
WEIGHT .. . 120 pounds.
OCCURENCE — Found wherever
man exists, seldom in the free
state. With few exceptions the
combined state is preferred.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES — All
colors, sizes, and forms. Boils at
nothing, and may freeze at any
minute. Very bitter if not well used.
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES —
Very active, possesses great af-finity
for gold, platinum, and prec-ious
stones. Violent reaction when
left alone. Ability to absorb great
amounts of expensive food at any
time. Turns green when placed be-side
a better looking specimen.
Ages rapidly.
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Did you hear the noise in Greek
Class last week? Pipkin was set
atop the table chair and all. (The
preachers confessed — "just for
fun")
It has been suggested that the-school
furnish Kleenex—to elimin-ate
the sniffling and snuffling of
those who don't have handker-chiefs.
Moronic—Jackie Malmsten rubs
her finger over her face
looks at the finger, and says, "I'm
not blushing."
Bernice Hallstrand wants to
know how to keep pearls from
breaking at the most inopportune
times.
N EWSETT ES
The girls' dormitory looks like
a hospital. Mid-winter colds —
cough . . . choke . . . sneeze . . .
"What dud ya do wid dat Vix?"
* *
Bernice Shold returned last week
after having her appendix removed.
* * *
Carol Rexion and Gwen Parson
are ready for Christmas. Note the
elaborate room decorations.
The library boasts a new-up-to
date atlas put out by the Encyclo-pedia
Britannica.
* * *
Gertrude Carrol is back in school
after being in the hospital.
* * *
Mel and Sid Wyma have dropped
for the present preparatory to join
the Navy.
* * *
Gilmore Lawrence, former Beth-elite,
visited school. He is now at
the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station.
Norman Hoover has enlisted in
the Navy. He will leave soon.
Did anyone see the new formula
in the lab?—DIRT plus H2O equals
MUD.
One could mistake Bethel for
Alaska—All the "mush-mush" that
goes on! ! ! !
"Have you heard it?" yells Wil-bur
Erickson
"What?" bites Dick Klein?
"The wind, it's all over town! !"
Do you know Terrible-Tempered
Mr. Alquist? ? ? ?
Amos—What'd yo all do when
you found out a ghose wasn't chas-infg
yo last night?
Andy—Why, when I found out a
ghose wasn't chasing me, I slowed
down to a gallup!
School Diary
PICK-UPS
tA Eyes View .. .
"Sure I Was at the Game But What Happened"
Down in front! I would like to
see the game, that is if I can get
my eyes off those broad shoulders
that (censored) has. Oh, I beg
your pardon, so that's cheering. Is
that what they call it at Concordia?
Yes, I am awfully thirsty. Would
you mind terribly if I took a swal-low?
I'm sorry, I did mean to leave
half the bottle for you. What's
that you say? We made a basket.
Who's we? I never made a basket
in my life. Only Indians do that.
Oh, Bethel threw the ball in the
basket. Isn't that silly? Now what
made them do that? How can they
play when the ball is in the basket?
Don't try to explain; you make it
worse.
Look at that guy from Concordia
will you? Why don't they grow
good-lookers like that at Bethel or
am I just not very observant? That
center certainly is tall though. I'll
have to get my glasses; I can't see
that far without them. Why don't
they let the visitors have the ball
once in a while? After all, it
isn't fair to hog it all the time.
Shine would make a good Super-man,
wouldn't he? He gets around
so fast. He is fast, isn't he? Look
at Gussie try to hit that fish net
hanging up there. I hope he makes
it so he'll quit fooling around pretty
soon.
Did you see that? That grabby
fellow took the ball right away
from G. Johnson. I think he should
read Emily Post.
How did that car get into the
school building? That's the fourth
By Ginger
time I've heard its horn. Why don't
they get out of its way? Where's
everyone going? Is that car coming
in here?
Oh, the game's over. Isn't that
strange I didn't see very much
playing. What? I was too watch-ing.
At least I was most of the
time. By the way who won? They
did? That's nice. I don't like bas-ketball
very well anyway. Let's go
to Blomberg's for a coke and forget
about it. So long everybody.
"On the Bench"
by Bo
Now that all football fever has
left the fellows here at Bethel and
all over the nation, except for the
bowl games on New Year's Day,
and we have all put our togs back
into mothballs, the sport's program
shifts from the gridiron to the bas-ketball
floor.
The Indians ; with two wins to
their credit, one over the Alumni
and the other over the hard-fight-ing
Concordia team, have already
gained some confidence which will
help them in the coming conference
schedule. The Indians have also
had the opportunity of having sev-eral
interesting scrimmages. On
November 30th, the team again
played the Alumni and were beaten
by a score of 40-38. Much credit
for the Alumni victory must go to
Gene Nyman who played brilliantly
at center and also to Del Peterson
who had just returned from the
Army Air Corps. Another defeat
was suffered at the hands of Con-cordia
in a later contest by the
score of 54-36, but the less said
about it—the better. But even
though the team has been beaten,
the games have been of much value
in helping to shape the team for
the approaching schedule.
With such fellows as "Drip" Otto,
the 5:30 sharpshooter, Bob "Kill-
'em" Bergerud, Gene "One-Eyed"
Johnson, Gus "Never-miss" Gustaf-son,
Gordon "Lanky" Johnson, Tom
"Dreamer" Thompson, Rune
"Baldie" Mentzer, Willie "Wild"
Wessman, Bob "Bomber" Hailes,
John "Hunky" Danielson, Inge
"Brown-Eyed" Larson, Bob "Mapie"
Norstrom, and many others prom-ising
freshman and sophomore,
sure-fire basket shooters, there is
no reason why the team should not
have a successful season. Another
bright spot for the Indians is Don
Johnson's coaching. Don is doing
a good job in replacing Bill Adams,
our coach of last year.
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Concordia payed back with divi-dends
the loss they suffered in the
first contest between Bethel and
Concordia. On December 5, the
Comets overpowered the Bethel
squad by a score of 54-36. Even
though the high scoring honors
went to Shine Swanson, with 14
points, the high scoring on the
Comet team overshadowed him.
Hanneman and Grumm led the op-ponent
attack with 12 points each
while Hinricks and Meichsner fol-lowed
close with 10 points each.
Fouls were plenteous on both
sides, each team losing 2 men on
that account. The distinct advan-tage
lies with the team playing on
its own floor and this was decis-ively
shown in this contest. We had
a small but noisy cheering section.
With a score of 35-25, the Bethel
"B" spuad played the Concordia
second team preliminary to the
varsity game and were adminis-tered
a defeat, not as severe as the
varsity's, but the second defeat to
a Concordia team.
Scoring honors went to Himrich
of Concordia with 9 points. Mesen-brick
of Concordia and Mentzer of
Bethel each had 8 tallies with Fran-cis
Otto credited with 7. This
game, as the varsity game, was
well-stocked with fouls, three
Bethel players and two Concordia
men leaving the game on this ac-count.
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Bethel Indians
Scalp Augsburg
Saturday, December 12, the Beth-el
Indians played the Augsburg
'Freshmen Cagers at the Minnea-polis
Armory and won a rather
slim victory by the score of 22-18.
The gym was new and made it
somewhat difficult for our boys to
get the range of the basket but,
apparently, the "Auggies" had
their difficulties too. Rune Ment-zer
was high-point man for both
teams with seven tallies. Thomp-son
of Bethel, and Markgraf of
Augsburg, followed with 5 each.
This game proved a good build-up
for the thriller that followed
between the Augsburg Varsity and
St. Cloud Teachers. The game tied
and went into two overtimes with
St. Cloud winning by a one point
margin 62-61.
Augsburg f.g. f.t. T.
Sverdrup 0 1 1
Blikstad 0 1 1
Carlson 2 0 4
Markgraf 2 1 5
Lockert 0 3 3
Johnson 0 0 0
Bartsch 0' 0 0
Emerson 0 2 2
Mekiver 1 0 2
Dahl 0 0 0
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Bethel f.g. f.t. T
Swanson 2 0 4
Bergerud 0 1 1
Thompson 2 1 5
G. Johnson 0 0 0
Gustafson 0 0 0
Hails 1 1 3
Mentzer 3 1 7
Danielson 0 0 0
Bishop 0 0 0
Wessman 1 0 2
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BETHEL
Swanson, f. 14
Wessman, f. 2
Bergerud, f. 4
Mentzer, f. 3
Johnson, G., c. 1
Thompson, c. 3
Johnson, G., g. 1
Hailes, g. 3
Gustafson, g. 5
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C ONC ORDIA
Grumm, f. 12
Hinrichs, f. 10
Hanneman, f. 12
Meichsner, c. 10
Braem, c. 0
Nahnsen, g. 0
Margardt, g. 5
Friedrichs, g. 5
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